Good morning they took all the rain out of the forecast for the next 7 days. Any day over 28 and the canola won’t make pods. It’s easy to see pull a plant in august and you will see blanks that’s a heat wave.
But I think today we have to talk about the elephant in the room and that’s the drought. A lot of friends of mine out west say the hopper situation is bad, the drought is taking crops and not a peep.
Yes rain makes grain but once July hits and if you missed June rains you have nothing in the tank. Even if you received an inch or two the tanks not full. A fast rain runs away a slow rain is a soaker.
Drought sucks.
The other elephant is massive hail storms taking acres. You work so hard and in a blink it’s wiped out.
We spend so much to grow a crop and some times it’s more about luck than brains.
Speaking of Brains or no brains our leader Trudeau if he ever gets a majority would force so many rules on farmers that it would collapse the industry. Everything out of Ottawa doesn’t work.
Ok the CROP REPORT.
HRS and Durum in our area looks like a 9 dressed up as a 10 due to excess water and flooding out of crops in certain areas. Yes the East has pockets of unreal crops. We are at 5 inches for the month of JUNE. MOST WHEAT IS JUST HEADING OR AT THE FLAG STAGE. Spraying of fungicides will happen and is just starting. The wheat is shorter this year but the heads are nice.
Peas and Lentils have come out of the spray sickness and are doing better. Yes lots of drowned out dead spots but the rest of the field looks good. Peas have the same issue with water and disease and crop rotation. We have fields that are 8 years ago peas and since it’s wet showing signs of disease. We also have peas on fields never seeded to peas right beside that are awesome. Pulses have problems and it’s not been addressed by farm organizations. Just let’s get Manitoba to try to grow them. It will work for a few years.
Barley doesn’t like water and it’s struggling. Most have sprayed a fungicide or will shortly. We are today. Our area has more barley than usual.
Flax our area has very little so not much to report on flax.
Oats are looking good but guys cut back big time.
Canola, is every where from just seeing rows across the valley in the flooded area to full flower. Big cabbage and thick, every seed grew. Spraying is started and most will spray for disease. We’re doing a section today.
Well some have rain and some need rain it’s a massive seeded area from the mountains to the Ontario shield.
Good luck stay safe and May every one get that soaker that’s needed.
Nice to see this threads weekly getting 8000 hits.
I will do a province crop tour some time in July just not sure when.
But I think today we have to talk about the elephant in the room and that’s the drought. A lot of friends of mine out west say the hopper situation is bad, the drought is taking crops and not a peep.
Yes rain makes grain but once July hits and if you missed June rains you have nothing in the tank. Even if you received an inch or two the tanks not full. A fast rain runs away a slow rain is a soaker.
Drought sucks.
The other elephant is massive hail storms taking acres. You work so hard and in a blink it’s wiped out.
We spend so much to grow a crop and some times it’s more about luck than brains.
Speaking of Brains or no brains our leader Trudeau if he ever gets a majority would force so many rules on farmers that it would collapse the industry. Everything out of Ottawa doesn’t work.
Ok the CROP REPORT.
HRS and Durum in our area looks like a 9 dressed up as a 10 due to excess water and flooding out of crops in certain areas. Yes the East has pockets of unreal crops. We are at 5 inches for the month of JUNE. MOST WHEAT IS JUST HEADING OR AT THE FLAG STAGE. Spraying of fungicides will happen and is just starting. The wheat is shorter this year but the heads are nice.
Peas and Lentils have come out of the spray sickness and are doing better. Yes lots of drowned out dead spots but the rest of the field looks good. Peas have the same issue with water and disease and crop rotation. We have fields that are 8 years ago peas and since it’s wet showing signs of disease. We also have peas on fields never seeded to peas right beside that are awesome. Pulses have problems and it’s not been addressed by farm organizations. Just let’s get Manitoba to try to grow them. It will work for a few years.
Barley doesn’t like water and it’s struggling. Most have sprayed a fungicide or will shortly. We are today. Our area has more barley than usual.
Flax our area has very little so not much to report on flax.
Oats are looking good but guys cut back big time.
Canola, is every where from just seeing rows across the valley in the flooded area to full flower. Big cabbage and thick, every seed grew. Spraying is started and most will spray for disease. We’re doing a section today.
Well some have rain and some need rain it’s a massive seeded area from the mountains to the Ontario shield.
Good luck stay safe and May every one get that soaker that’s needed.
Nice to see this threads weekly getting 8000 hits.
I will do a province crop tour some time in July just not sure when.
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